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Angie owns not only the diner, it turns out, but also the adjacent Casa Suerte motor inn, which Taylor understood as "Casa Sweater" over the phone According to Angie, suerte o when the state finally persuaded Lucky’s father to catch up on his child support The idea of this place as soood fortune depresses Taylor The low brick units of the rass, an e pool, and one pale only to find itself leggy and ridiculous above the telephone wires

Each unit has a single hborliness, but the place seehbors Taylor has seen only one other person around, an old worateful to have somewhere to hide out while she considers their nextnowhere

"So what do you want to do now?" she asks Turtle

"Go home"

"I know But we can’t We’re on vacation for a while"

Turtle bites her lips between her teeth, then releases thes with it: her plate, the tablecloth, her hair The bulldog watches with htly for Turtle’s eyes, but she bites down on the io so far, she’s found Not to the point of self-dalossy slabs of la in the entrance to the diner: articles from the Phoenix Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle, even the Washington Post, all concerning the great adventure of Lucky and Turtle It’s no coton, DC, are aware of Angie’s diner

"Let’s watch TV," Turtle suggests

"Sure, we can go watch TV Pinky will cook and wait tables if the starving Ars its rear end with its ghost of bobbed tail, and Turtle smiles, her first all day Taylor feels relieved for that, at least, as they shove the door open and run across the wet courtyard

Sideways rain stings Turtle’s eyes and arms She tried to see in the pool as they hurried by but there is no blue in there, only a bigon the bottom Lucky Buster said he could swi to fit the key in the door of their roo a little roof of newspaper over her head

"Have you seen the horses?" she wants to know

"No," Taylor says The key is on a wood card like Popsicle sticks When it slips out of Taylor’s hand it goes away on the water down the sidewalk

"Well, they were here," the woive ives it back "What kind of present?" Taylor asks She tries to make the lock open, but her hands are shaky like they were the day Turtle and Jax and Dwayne Ray ca in a suitcase

"The horses! Didn’t you see them?"

"I’m sorry," Taylor says

Turtle doesn’t want to see a horse’s clo feet Everyone here is afraid Turtle feels the old place coet air

"Oh, you’re sorry I’m sure you are" The woround with little steps The door gives in and they fall inside, where the roo like clean bathrooht here

Turtle clicks on the television and stands a few inches froh the brazen i a cathedral, and climbs onto the bed Taylor isn’t sure what the appeal is, but she accepts Turtle’s choice The narrator is describing the chemicals they have to use on the ancient walls;h steeple in his systeraceful A male spider with a bucket seat and chemicals

"Where do you think Lucky Buster is now?" Turtle asks

Taylor has stripped down to her bra and begins pulling off Turtle’s wet clothes "Oh, I think he’s at a friend’s house chewing banana bubble guie won’t let him have"

"Like me and Jax do when you’re at work?"